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05/10/2011

The Voice of Truth

"Your foes roared in the place where you met with us; they set up their standards as signs." psalm 74:4

Is your ear trained to know the Lord's voice? One of the most grievous things to behold is fellow Christians being deceived by a voice that they believe is God. This deception is quite methodical by the enemy and very convincing by those who are ignorant. Ignorance is opposite of knowledge. If we profess we are Christians, then the only Truth is the Word of God (John 17:17) If we don't know the Truth, or the Word of God, we can all potentially be taken captive by a voice that mimics the voice of Truth.

We see in this Psalm 74:4, that the enemy even has boldness to come in our meeting place with the Lord. Yes, even in our private prayer time. So, can you discern out who is talking to you or counseling you? The voice of God will always sound like His word. The Word is the voice of Truth. The Word is God (John 1:1)

How much do you know your word? It will take us all a life time by His grace, to read His Word and understand it spiritually. The issue isn't how much time we don't have to read His word, the issue is how much time we have free to listen to and engage another voice.

(1John 4:1) tells us to test every spirit. You can only test the spirit, or who is talking, by lining that voice up with the Word of God, or the voice of Truth. If we are out of balance with NOT reading the Word, the enemy can come in our meeting place with the Lord and establish or "set up" his standards as signs. In our ignorance, we come to accept these "signs" as signs from God because we don't truly have enough knowledge or understanding of God's word in us. We now receive these signs or standards as truth and thus are motivated or live by them. I've seen Christians act on these "signs or standards" and engage in anti-Christ(against Christ) behavior or behavior that isn't of God(worldly) calling it God. Anything that is done that is outside of God's Word, opposes Him and who He is. We will be used to sow seeds of doubt and confusion on the enemy's behalf, literally sharing these "standards or signs" that aren't even of God within counseling other Christians. We will find ourselves in rebellion or witchcraft in this proliferation of these messages. We have now opened the door to the enemy and have said "Welcome into my mind and my family". Now we are led on a path set up by the enemy for destruction and farther away from the loving Father, or the voice of Truth. Pride has entered and they "believe" that they already know the truth because they are certain that it was God's voice. Why do they need to read and study more of the Word or any of it?

Others are being used for an evil work calling it "God" or "Godly" or what "God told me to do" in participating in the encouragement of ungodly counsel. The enemy knows how to roar in your meeting place, whether it's loud and intimidating or quiet and counterfeit. The enemy is successful here in this deception and demise because the work that these people are engaged in affects many others around them. We must pray for ourselves to know the voice of Truth. We must pray that the Voice of Truth to be realized by our brothers and sisters in Christ who are found going in this direction according to the Word of God: "My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save him from death and cover a multitude of sins." James 5:19

This message is not one to glorify the enemy or encourage fascination with him or his agents. It's a message to expose the wiles of the enemy because I see many being led astray. We should be only concerned with our Creator and be insatiable for His living Word and never let our passion for Him be tainted with any interest in the enemy. The enemy is easy to discern out and understand. He is opposite of God and His word and we don't need to gain any other understanding about him period.

I will plead, in all ways, time and time again, in desperation and unceasingly, for us to all invest in the study of God's word. We can never adhere to principles outside of the Word of God or add to the Word of God. We cannot add non -scriptural teaching methods/behaviors or get caught in man made(worldly) doctrines or practices. "We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us my human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words." (1Corinthians 2:12-13)

The Word will be our only truth, forever. All man will fail us at one time or another. God, Jehovah, the Everlasting Father, the Great I Am, the Ancient of Days, Jesus, Our Redeemer, Our Righteousness, will never fail us. His Word will never change and will never fail us. We must know the voice of Truth and read His Word so we will not find ourselves deceived and led astray from our Beloved.

"Jesus answered,'You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." John 18:37